“…Preparing preservice teachers to effectively use curriculum materials is an important issue (Davis, 2006) as curriculum materials play a significant role in both shaping elementary science instruction and guiding beginning teachers (Ball & Feiman-Nemser, 1988;Grossman & Thompson, 2004;Kauffman, Johnson, Kardos, Lui, & Peske, 2002;Mulholland & Wallace, 2005). Unfortunately, many of the current materials are of poor quality (Kesidou & Roseman, 2002;Stern & Roseman, 2004). In considering how to help preservice teachers learn how to teach science effectively and having the opportunity to study how to help preservice teachers learn to use curriculum materials, I theorized that giving preservice teachers opportunities to work with science curriculum materials could be useful for helping them refine their views of effective science teaching and potentially align their own views with those of reform-based practices as well as develop their critical analysis practices and build their repertoire of lessons for teaching.…”